Senate

Today we gave the smack-down. Again. And boy did it feel good. Even though we know that this is a tenous win that might be revived (again) in another insipid form, I can't even express how wonderful it feels to rub it in Big Oil's face!

The whole vote I thought about all the work we've put into this, the fact checks, the calling fouls, the protests, the blogs, the petitions, the endless hours. How again and again, we've toiled away on congress to listen to the American people instead of the corporate dollars.

Then I saw my Senator from North Dakota, John Hoeven, introduce his amendment to approve Keystone XL, and shouted (literally) with excitement when the final vote count was announced. 56 to 42. I felt joy. I felt proud. I felt the excitement of possibility. And most of all, I felt relief.

Two weeks ago, 350.org put out a Congressional call to action and within 24hrs, 800,000 people answered by signing a petition demanding an end to Keystone XL. We delivered the those petitions to Congress itself, and the sight was pretty impressive. But we needed to make sure that Congress really heard us, and really understood that we mean business. So, while Senators were on recess in their home districts, we paid them a visit. And we brought our boxes of petitions with us.

Big Oil’s cronies in the Senate are trying to revive the Keystone XL pipeline — and we have 24 hours to stop it.

The Senate could vote as early as Tuesday, and once again, people power is the only thing that can stop Big Oil. That’s why people and organizations across the country are uniting for a 24 hour blitz to send 500,000 messages to the Senate demanding they hold the line against Big Oil, and reject Keystone XL.